Re: More Muslim literate than Hindus

dec 31, 2006

strange, if true.

strange because mohammedans typically prefer to send their children to madrassas rather than to regular schools.

thus, perhaps 'literacy' means just literacy in arabic. which is of little value in the real world unless you are planning to be a saudi-funded sleeper cell member, like all those ubiquitous 'kashmiri emporia'.

the last time there were any scientific ideas in arabic was during the christists' Dark Ages, when their church ensured that they were even more benighted than the arabs.

anyway, how does this demographic data jell with all the breast-beating about 'disadvantaged mohammedans'? well, it doesn't. that's because mohammedans are heavily pampered by the indian government, not disadvantaged.

let's face it, the average mohammedan is far better off in india than anywhere else. in most mohammedan states, he has to face sectarian violence from fellow-mohammedans. but in the state of indhimmia, he is positively spoiled with hand-outs, and he doesn't have to fear any violence: he is in fact the one handing out violence with impunity. (see afzal guru).

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More Muslim literate than Hindus
New Delhi, Dec 28: The literacy rate among Muslims is the lowest in the country from among the different communities, but they fare better than the majority Hindus in eight states.   The literacy rate among Muslim males was high - above 80 per cent - in Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Gujarat, according to a new book 'Population of India in the New Millennium: Census 2001' by noted researcher and demographer Mahendra K. Premi. As for Muslim women, a high literacy rate of about 70 per cent was recorded in Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh.   Muslim men had the highest literacy rate of 93.7 per cent in Kerala, almost at par with Hindus who had a literacy rate of 93.8 per cent, as per the 2001 Census.   In Chhattisgarh, the literacy rate of Muslim males was 90.5 per cent, while Hindus lagged behind at 76.8 per cent.   In communally-sensitive Gujarat, Muslim men fared better than Hindus with an 82.9 per cent literacy level compared to the majority community's 79.1 per cent literacy rate. Muslim men had a better literacy rate than their Hindu counterparts in six states - Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Tamil Nadu.   The percentage of literate Muslim women was higher than that of the Hindu community in nine states - Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu. They recorded the highest literacy rate in Kerala (85.5 per cent), compared to Hindus with 86.7 per cent. " It seems the level of economic and social development of the state is not the only important factor in Muslim literacy rates but it is the tradition of sending children to school or not," Premi, a former JNU professor , says in the book.   At the national level, Muslim men and women have the poorest literacy rates of 67.6 per cent and 50.1 per cent respectively. The overall literacy rate of the country as per the 2001 Census is about 65 per cent. (Agencies)
Published: Friday, December 29, 2006

 

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http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/14925.asp

 

Congress party and Sonia Gandhi still using Muslims for votes - Muslim males are more literate than males of other major religions
Media Release
Dec. 29, 2006

 

The book, "Population of India in the new millennium, Census 2001," released at a function here on Wednesday says Muslim males are more literate than males of other major religions.

 

According to it, the literacy among Muslim males in Andhra Pradesh was 76.5 per cent as against Hindus'' 70.3 per cent while it was 82.4 per cent in case of the Muslim males in Gujarat as against 79.1 per cent of Hindu males. Same was true in Madhya Pradesh where 79.8 per cent Muslim males were educated compared to 75.5 per cent Hindu males.

 

Even among women, Muslims were more educated with literacy of 59.1 per cent as against Hindu women's 49.2 per cent. The study, however, admits that unlike the males, the literacy rate of Muslim women was not up to the mark in most of the states.

 

Harping on a demographer's book, the Bhartiya Janata Party on Thursday questioned the statistical data of the Sachar Committee on Muslims'' educational deprivation as not definitive and asked the government to come clean on the basis of the committee's recomme-ndations that it is in a hurry to implement.

 

Party spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad told reporters here that the book's chapter on religious composition was an eye-opener that literacy among Muslims was much higher than others in most states and the government cannot wish away these statistics culled out from the 2001 Census former Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU) professor Mahendra K Premi, who commands high respect as a noted demographer.

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